Mills and weaving factories sprung up over Belfast and surrounding towns and many people, Ulster-Scots included, poured into the area from the countryside looking for work. These people who moved ...

Earlier this month the DUP Communities minister announced his department would provide £250,000 of Stormont funds for events ...

In a world of self-conscious nation states, the cultural connections of people who shared no single national identity brings problems of conceptualisation. Ulster Scots studies expand the boundaries ...

At present, dozens of collections of Ulster-Scots poetry sit on the shelves of libraries across the world. Many of these books are rare and difficult to find, or are too fragile to be handled any more ...

The Ulster-Scots Agency is also receiving a one-off funding adjustment of £137,500, most of which is from Stormont and the rest from the Irish government. The NSMC was set up under the 1998 Good ...

The Irish government has provided €40,000 in a once-off funding payment to the Ulster Scots Agency following a “reallocation” of funding towards the agency by Communities minister Gordon Lyons.